Advene (Annotate DVDs, Exchange on the NEt) is an ongoing project in the LIRIS laboratory LIRIS - UMR 5205 CNRS. It aims at providing a format to share annotations about movies stored on DVDs or digital files, as well as tools to edit and visualize the annotations. Teachers, moviegoers, etc can use them to exchange multimedia comments and analysis about movies.

The shared data only contains the annotations and instructions for their visualization. No movie data (neither picture nor sound) is stored or exchanged. Instead, if needed for the visualization of the data, pictures and sound clips can be extracted from the DVD. The user of the data is then required to possess the DVD to take full advantage of the analysis and comments.

Version 0.46 of the Advene software has been released. This release integrates new audio/video extraction algorithms such as face detection, audio waveform generation or silence detection. The interface has been improved in many areas, based on users requests/suggestions. A summarized change list can be found in the changelog: http://svn.gna.org/viewcvs/advene/tags/0.46/CHANGES.txt?view=markup

Version 0.44 of the Advene software has been released. Among the new features, the website export can generate HTML5 <video> tags, timecode display format can be customised, the player control interface and shortcuts has been revamped, and ...

Version 0.42 of the Advene software has been released. It brings graphics (SVG) overlay over the video, the ability to synchronously play multiple video files, a new shot validation interface for frame-precise adjustments, as well as many improvements.
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